Ecclesial Solidarity in the Pauline Corpus. James T. Hughes

237. Diodorus of Sicily, History 18.74.1.

238. Diodorus of Sicily, History 20.24.4; here the king is Eumelus.

239. Diodorus of Sicily, History 34/35.2.15, a rebellious assembly where the citizens of Enna are put to death; 36.4.4, slaves and rebels hold and assembly.

240. Diodorus of Sicily, History 1.58.4.

241. Diodorus of Sicily, History 13.63.6; 16.3.1; 17.108.3; 20.63.2; 21.9.1. Perhaps clearest here is 36.16.1, which records a series of assemblies over two years.

242. Diodorus of Sicily, History 30.1.1.

243. Diodorus of Sicily, History 11.50.3.1, Sparta (a general assembly distinct from the council of 11.50.2); 16.32.2, 16.68.5, Delphi; 16.78.2.3, Rhegium; 19.5.1, Susiane; 19.51.1, Macedonian; 19.67.4, Acarnaians.

244. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ant. rom. 1.3.4. For a brief survey of Dionysius’s Atticism and Greek presentation of Roman history, see Rebenich, “Historical Prose,” 292–94.

245. Note that at over two hundred occurrences, his Roman Antiquities contains the greatest number of uses of ἐκκλησία of the literature cited.

246. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 2.6.1, called by Romulus; 2.56.5, dispersed by Romulus; 10.3.3, 6, called and dismissed by Tribunes; 10.13.7; 10.15.3; 10.16.1, called by Verginius against the Senate and consuls. See also 6.43.2; 7.7.5; 7.38.1; 7.57.4; 8.72.4; 10.18.2; 10.19.4; 10.25.3; 10.40.3; 11.61.1.

247. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 10.48.2, where the assembly is the place to call for trial; 4.17.3; 4.48.3, assembly against Tarquinas; 7.26.1, place for Marcius’s defence; 7.36.4, place that will decide punishment of Marcius Coriolanus. See also 5.11.2; 6.82.3; 6.88.1; 7.14.2; 8.75.1; 9.37.2; 9.54.5, 6; 10.5.2; 10.15.7; 10.47.3; 10.55.1; 10.56.1, 11.5.4; 11.46.3; 11.53.3; 11.54.5.

248. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 8.11.1, 2.

249. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 8.77.1, 2, the quaestor has the right to assemble the people; 6.67.2; 7.17.2, the sanctuary of Vulcan as place where assembly met; 8.6.2, Marcius complains over the failure of due process in the summoning of the tribal rather than the centuriate assembly; 11.10.4, poorest not summoned to assemblies under Decemvirate.

250. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 7.23.3, unruly assembly; 9.25.3, tribunes incite people against Patricians; 9.48.1, fight breaks out in the assembly after Appuis refuses to leave.

251. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 4.71.5; 4.76.4; 7.14.5, in relation to Brutus and Valerius; 4.71.2, 6; 4.75.1–2, 4; 4.78.1; 4.84.5; 4.85.1, assembly in Rome summoned against the power of Tarquin. See also 4.8.3; 4.9.6; 4.10.1–2, 6; 4.20.3; 4.23.1; 4.34.1; 4.35.3; 4.37.2; 5.1.2; 5.4.1; 5.10.1; 5.17.2.

252. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 1.47.4, Achaeans; 3.2.4; 3.22.2; 3.30.2, 5; 3.31.1, Albans; 4.56.4; 4.57.2; 4.58.3, Gabini; 5.3.2, Tarquinii; 3.36.2; 4.57.1; 5.57.2–4; 4.58.4, Romans; 8.4.2, 3, Volscians; 5.52.5, Latins; 5.60.1.2, Fidenae; 5.34.2.2; 5.34.4.2 Tyrrhenians.

253. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 6.87.1; 10.43.3, where a decree of the Senate is read in assembly; 7.15.4; 7.16.1, 4; 7.7.1; 7.17.2, 6; 7.27.1; 7.27.3; 10.31.1, where the role of the Senate, assembly, consuls and tribunes is discussed; 8.43.7; 9.48.3, decree to Senate first and then to assembly; 10.33.4, 6; 10.34.2; 10.35.4, the role of the assembly in power struggles between consuls and tribunes. See 6.16.1; 6.30.2; 6.40.1; 6.43.3; 6.69.4; 6.70.2; 6.81.2; 6.83.2; 6.89.2; 6.96.2, for times when the Roman assembly of people (not the Senate) make decisions.

254. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 3.13.1; 3.27.3; 4.85.3; 6.6.1; 6.94.1; 7.6.4, 5; 8.54.5; 9.8.4; 9.10.5; 9.13.3; 9.50.6.

255. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 2.8.4.6, calling of the Plebians in Rome with the horn to assemblies in general.

256. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 8.82.6; 8.90.5; 10.32.4; 10.50.1; 10.56.2; 10.57.6; 11.45.1.

257. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 7.59.1; 7.59.2.1; 11.45.2.7. Section 7.59 contains a discussion of the workings of the centuriate and tribal assemblies and notes the novelty of what happens in the trial of Marcius Coriolanus. Similar discussions of the relationship can be found in 9.41.2, 4; 9.46.4; 9.49.3 highlights tribal assemblies as the place where tribunes and aediles chosen. See 2.7 for an explanation of the relationship between tribes and curiae as instituted by Romulus.

258. See for example Dionysius, Ant. rom. 2.57.3; 2.58.3; 2.60.3.1.

259. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 7.11.4; 7.15.4; 7.58.4; 8.70.1; 9.1.3; 9.54.1; 10.28.1; 11.50.1.

260. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 9.1.2, here of the Tyrrhenians.

261. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 7.6.4; 9.13.3.

262. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 11.39.1–3.

263. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 11.39.1–3; 10.26.5; 10.54.6; 12.1.11.

264. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 4.23.6; 8.14.4; 8.58.3; 8.71.4, 5; 8.72.1; 8.73.1; 9.17.5.8.

265. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 9.43.4.

266. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 11.45.1, 3; 11.53.1 for centuriate assemblies; 11.45.1–3 for tribal assemblies.

267. Dionysius, Ant. rom. 40.20.1, the rights granted to the rich in the assembly. See also Dionysius, Isocr. 2; Dionysius, 1 Amm. 11; Dionysius, Thuc. 48–49.

268. I will designate this usage a “polis assembly” or “polis” to distinguish from other uses.

269. For a similar position, see Giles, What on Earth, 230.